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Letter from THOMAS WILLIAM SILLOWAY to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH,
dated October 15, 1857.,
Original located at the University of Vermont's Special Collections in the George
Perkins Marsh Collection, filed by date.,
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/twsgpm571015 (accessed March 03, 2015)

Letter from THOMAS WILLIAM SILLOWAY to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH,
dated October 15, 1857.

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James P. Tranowski andEllen Thomson

Published by: University of Vermont. All rights reserved.

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Boston Oct. 15..1857.

My Friend Marsh. I sent you a day or two ago my plate drawings of framing of various
kinds and hope they were received. You may keep them as long as you desire as I have
no immediate use for them. Such tracings as you wish for your own use, you are quite
at liberty to take. If there is anything not therein expressed, if I can aid you,
please write to me. The lithographs are all of them done, and in the hands of
Doc't Powers. I wrote to Mr.
Williams before they were printed to know how many to get (I know not whether
you were there, or at B. and hence wrote to him) he wrote, "400 copies" and that
more could be ordered if needed. I had that number printed, 20 copies I sent to
him, to be distributed among himself, Judge
Porter and the Governor (he having agreed to see the
Gov. supplied) 6 copies I sent to you, and 12 I retained here. The doctor was beset
on every hand for copies and as a relief put 60 copies into the book stores. He also
thought it to be a good idea to have a few printed on thin paper so that they might
be sent by mail. In consideration of the 60 put in the stores and the 20 thin ones
& 80 in all have been printed and delivered as above specified. So you see
the matter is ended. The doc't has them and I presume they will soon be distributed.
Mr. Bufford has made out his bill and I tell him to
forward it to you -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- and you to such authority as you may deem proper. Of
course after signing it, it will need to go to Woodstock for Mr. Williams and Judge
Porter and from thence it may either go back to Bufford and he send it to the
Auditor, and get it endorsed amp;c. for payment by the Treasurer or you
commissioners may put it through all the line and get the
Treasurer to forward the draft. As the line of procedure is a long one and
Bufford is in want of his money. I hope you will find it convenient to attend to it
soon. Probably it would go through the course easier now than at any time.
The picture sell at retail for $1. If there is any one who would canvass the state I
presume that thousands could be sold and make it pay for itself. Eagle Hotel would
have one surely.